1. Who Needs a Developer for Automated SharePoint Provisioning?
Eric Overfield
Microsoft Regional Director and MVP
PixelMill

2. ERIC OVERFIELD President & Co-Founder of PixelMill
Microsoft MVP, Office Servers & Services
Microsoft Regional Director
Published SharePoint Author
SharePoint Community Organizer & Contributor
ericoverfield.com
@ericoverfield
Will make available on blog and twitter (slideshare.net), so if you remember one of those then you can always review everything we discuss

3. OVERVIEW SharePoint Provisioning Review Introduction to SharePoint PnP
Provisioning SharePoint With PnP and PowerShell
Tips, Best Practices, and Demos
Demos

4. Sharepoint provisioning
DemosFocus here on provisioning SharePoint sites / assets / settings, etc

5. COMMON SHAREPOINT DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS
SharePoint Deployment Components
Site columns
Content Types
List Templates
List Instances
Master Pages
Page Layouts
General branding assets (CSS, JS, etc)
Content Pages
Site Templates
Office 365 Groups
Auto-Feature Activation
Site Configuration Settings
Property Bag*
Search Setup
Demos

6. TRADITIONAL SHAREPOINT DEVELOPMENT METHODSC#
Feature Framework
Full Trust – SharePoint 2007
Sandbox – SharePoint 2010 (somewhat deprecated in SPO)
Add-ins – SharePoint 2013+
Traditionally required Visual Studio
Compiled code often used – not cloud friendly
Add-in model clunky for provisioning
Demos

7. FEATURE FRAMEWORK CHALLENGE
New features / experiences not available / difficult to transfer without continual on-going maintenance
Customized site based on snapshot of existing OOTB site template with Feature provided customization provisioning
Custom v16.x
Custom V16.x
Custom v16.x
Copy
Customizations
Time
SharePoint/O365 v16.x.next
OOTB
SharePoint/O365 v16.x
SharePoint/O365 v16.x.1
SP keeps changing, open community on best practices makes sense
Feature Framework too rigid
For many features, requires full-tust (O365 with cross out)
Based on a snapshot of SP
Difficult to upgrade and maintain
SharePoint Framework
Features / enhancement / bug fixes / new experiences released and available to new or existing sites. Deployed automatically

8. A better way – Sharepoint pnp

9. SHAREPOINT / OFFICE 365 DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS AND PRACTICES
SharePoint PnP – An open source Initiative
Originally created by Microsoft and a few others in 2013
Thanks core team –
Not related to Microsoft’s general Patterns and Practices initiative
SharePoint PnP – For SharePoint 2013/2016/O365 – consists of:
Code, samples, best practices
Videos, tutorials, and a toolset for customization and working with SharePoint
All available on github –
Patterns & Practices

10. SHAREPOINT PNP

11. Sharepoint pnp core components
Project source – get the code, resources and contribute
Core Component -
Useful to build SharePoint ready console apps
PnP PowerShell -
JavaScript Core Library -
Partner Pack -
Monthly – Bi-weekly community calls -
PnP Core Component C#
Examples (Code)
Best Practices
Documentation
It is a give and take, mostly take, but do consider giving

12. aka.ms/OfficeDevPnP https://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnPVideos
@OfficeDevPnP

13. INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT PNP

14. PNP POWERSHELL AND REMOTE PROVISIONING

15. Sharepoint pnp core components
PnP PowerShell based on a PnP Core Component
Remote Provisioning Schema
Together provide a method to repeatedly provision

16. GETTING STARTED WITH PNP AND POWERSHELL
Install PnP PowerShell
Windows 10 – Very easy – Open PowerShell
SPO: />Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline –AllowClobber
SP2016: />Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell2016 –AllowClobber
SP2013: />Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell2013 –AllowClobber
Have at least PowerShell V3?
/> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion
/> Invoke-Expression (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString(' OfficeDev/PnP-PowerShell/master/Samples/Modules.Install/Install-SharePointPnPPowerShell.ps1')

17. COMMON PNP POWERSHELL COMMANDS
Update PnP PowerShell – remember, monthly updates!
Update-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell*
Connect to SharePoint Site
Connect-PnPOnline -url –Credentials (Get-Credential)
Work with SharePoint data once connected, such as:
Get-PnPList
Get-PnPWeb
Apply a provisioning template
Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path template.xml
Get detailed help regarding a specific commandlet
Get-Help Connect-PnPOnline -Detailed

18. DEMO: PNP POWERSHELL INTRODUCTION
Get-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell* -ListAvailable | Select-Object Name,Version | Sort-Object Version –Descending
Install-Module SharePointPnPPowerShellOnline -AllowClobber
Update-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell*
Get-Command -Module *PnP*
Connect-PnPOnline -url –Credentials (Get-Credential)
Get-PnPList
Get-Help Connect-PnPOnline -Detailed

19. PNP POWERSHELL USAGE SCENARIOS
Connect to a site
Connect-PnPOnline -url –Credentials (Get-Credential)
Get/set site/web/list/etc settings
Get-PnPWeb, Set-PnPWeb, Get-PnPSite, Get-PnPPropertyBag
Query data, such as list data, search, etc
Get-PnPSearchQuery –Query “product”
Create data, such as a list, or a group
New-PnPList -Title "Demo Announcements" -Url "DemoAnnouncements" -Template Announcements
Connect-PnPMicrosoftGraph –Scopes “Group.ReadWrite.All” “User.Read.All”
New-PnPUnifiedGroup -DisplayName “PnP Demo” -Description “PnP Demo Group” -MailNickname “PnPDemo”
Provision SharePoint Template
Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path .\template.xml -Handlers Lists, Files, CustomActions
Connect-PnPMicrosoftGraph –Scopes “Group.ReadWrite.All” “User.Read.All”
New-PnPUnifiedGroup -DisplayName “PnP Demo” -Description “PnP Demo Group” -MailNickname “PnPDemo”
Get-PnPUnifiedGroup
Remove-PnPUnifiedGroup –Identity “PnP Demo”

20. PROVISIONING SHAREPOINT WITH PNP POWERSHELL
Create a provisioning template – Manually or based on “template” site
XML based file based on a schema -
Can export from existing site: /> Get-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Out template.xml
Connect to SharePoint Site: Connect-PnPOnline
Apply provisioning template
Many options and handlers to customize experience without having to rewrite template
Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate -Path template.xml -Handlers Lists, Files
Create a PowerShell script to standardize for your user cases

21. https://msdn. microsoft

22. PROVISIONING SHAREPOINT WITH PNP POWERSHELL
Provisioning templates may be broken up into general tasks
Infrastructure (Site Columns, Content Types, Lists)
Taxonomy (Terms)
Files (Branding assets, master pages, page layouts, CSS, JS, Images, etc)
Custom Actions

23. DEMO: PNP PROVISIONING TEMPLATE
Look at custom example
Connect-PnPOnline -url –Credentials (Get-Credential)
Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate -Path .\templates\Provision.Infrastructure.xml
Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate -Path .\templates\Provision.Data.xml -Handlers Lists
Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate -Path .\templates\Provision.Data.xml -Handlers Files
Apply-SPOProvisioningTemplate -Path .\templates\Provision.CustomActions.xml

24. SIMPLE POWERSHELL SCRIPTS FOR REPEATABLE PATTERNS
Create installation and uninstall processes
Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate allows for sending in parameters
i.e.:
Allow PS Script to accept parameters
Script may include logic to provide multiple execution paths for provisioning
PnP Provisioning does not include an explicit uninstall / un-apply command
Rather use other PnP commands to remove each component as needed
/> Set-PnPWeb -SiteLogoUrl "" -AlternateCssUrl “ “
/> Remove-PnPCustomAction -Identity $customAction.Id -Scope Site -Force

25. DEMO: PNP PROVISIONING WITH SCRIPTS
Show Install script
.\PnP-Provision.ps1 -TargetWebUrl "
.\PnP-Provision-Disable.ps1 -TargetWebUrl "

26. pnp provisioning limitations
PnP is open source
Not 100% flushed out – not a “Product”
Not supported by Premier Support and other direct support channels
Updated often – Good and bad – keep up to date
Lively discussions do occur on GitHub project – if you find a bug, report it
Or fix issues / feature requests yourself and submit pull requests
Custom actions currently not available with Modern UI / Modern Team Sites

27. PNP PARTNER PACK

28. PNP PARTNER PACK JUMPSTART YOUR PROJECTS
PnP Partner Pack, currently V2 – A PnP Starter Kit
A reusable solution that combines aspects of PnP – For Office 365
Includes many features
Self-service site provisioning, fully configurable
Responsive UI package for classic team sites
UI widget for JavaScript injection to bypass custom master pages
Governance tools – Azure WebJob based remote timer jobs
Configurable branding
Installation is tricky, but getting better
PnP Partner Pack installation video:

29. DEMO: PNP PARTNER PACK

30. Contributing to pnp PnP is community driven
Everyone – Anyone can contribute
Code, documentation, samples, PowerShell updates, fixes
All available for contribution
A core team does control the flow and submission approval
Contributions are reviewed for quality – good for all
Get started – Watch the video

31. aka.ms/OfficeDevPnP https://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnPVideos
@OfficeDevPnP

32. review SharePoint Provisioning Review Introduction to SharePoint PnP
Provisioning SharePoint With PnP and PowerShell
Tips, Best Practices, and Demos
Demos

33. resources
Demos

34. https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP
SharePoint PnP:
PnP PowerShell
PnP Partner Pack
PnP Provisioning Schema
SharePoint PnP PowerShell Command Reference
Participating in SharePoint PnP Initiative
Session Source Code

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